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Topic: ACTIVITY

Complete these colloquial expressions.

1
We were sitting in the hospital waiting room twiddling our ........ for hours until we were seen.
a)
b)
c)
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2

We've been up to our ........ in work lately. I've never known it to be so busy.

a)
b)
c)
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3

You'll never persuade him to help you with the garden. He's bone ........ .

a)
b)
c)
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Now complete the gaps with the missing words.

4

A) Come on. Let's not all sit around our thumbs. Shall we go out somewhere?

B) Mary can't come out with us. She reckons she's to her eyes in work at the moment.

C) Her husband's idle. You never see him doing any work around the house.

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Make them your own!

1) Are you often found twiddling your thumbs or are you very active?
2) Have you been up to your eyes in work recently?
3) Have you got a friend who you'd describe as bone idle?